Long Corralling Poems

"Two Worlds Split"



One world 
fell into unlit hues 
black swallows 
black dogs their consort
murderous their crows
black wings of darkest blue

dark knight,
their oceans
locked in 
another's,
lost eternally,
dark nighted

corralling 
the purple heart bruised,
deadly nightshades pierce
the shadows hiding
under the...

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Lisa and I had been watching some boys strut about, as they played soccer, in their little shorts, in the freezing cold. It’s an old animal story.

The game ended, or it was intermission and about...

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There was a knight with locks that were golden 
Protecting a kingdom in threat of folding 
King and his trusting mighty duck 
Caring only for the almighty buck 
From the north 
Sharks were present for...

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Alone within emotional wilderness
(mine) biding leisure time
January 19th, 2020
without reason nor rhyme,
yet woke with sublime

pained acute awareness,
how once prime
merrily rightful autochthonous occupants
their land stole equivalent value
not much more'n dime.

Simple man dwells admiring
mother nature's architrave
home of...

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Tabled Destiny
             by Odin Roark

Life's tsunami starts way back
the shifting tectonics of time
re-form yet another evolution
one's bargained death wish in disguise

Most know not
when...

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Leaving my home in the city
Gray lonely,and faceless
When the sun did shine
We'd run to the corner of 166
By Moes candy store
And jump into our neighborhood pond
The local fire hydrant
We would Frolic as girls Jumped rope
and...

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 fable 

Farmer Brown never works on Sunday, 
for Sunday is special and they go to church.
Two horses in his barn know of kindness
for of kindness, the Browns talk a lot.

Each Sunday one of their...

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“Cowboys” , big John Wayne starred.
Cowhands abandon him.
Call, joining the Goldrush.
Could greenhorn kids succeed.
Camp cook and chuck wagon,
Complete the trail crew drive.
Cow punching green schoolboys
Called on to claim their jobs.
Cimarron,  the oldest,
Capricious, turned away.
Cow...

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The messiahs of my mind are savages,
Yet refined and noble, they withstand
The furnace of passing time that ravages
To carry news of global consequence.

With spears of destiny wrought electron blue
Their piercing travel sought focus eclectic,
Stimulating arcs...

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Ancient Arabians, mother to all
Bloodlines, essence of exquisiteness

Clydesdales, symmetry of strength
Dignity of duty, power of purpose

Ebony elegance, midnight silk
Friesians, crusaders in
Galloping gallantry

Hardy hearts, tiny and tenacious
Icelandic horses, gaited grace over
Jagged soil, volcanic climes

Kaleidoscope diamonds, lissome...

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As a baby I arrived sweetly, a peanut of a preemie
      Winning the struggle for survival the first years of life
         ...

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Humans are a social species, the men
in white coats, whom we have been
taught to trust, persuade us. Mr. President
mills about, run-of-the-mill
if you will, running the mill of the party,
the gathering. The women, like bushels
in their...

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A parched wind
still circles the dust devils
corralling them
in funneled fury.
The old rooster
atop the barn
squeaks
as the weather changes
as do the joints
in the old blue jeans.
Hard black coffee
bubbles on the stove,
her apron hangs
a memory
on the chair,
an old...

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Time, chameleon illusion–
glosses over each hurtful slur
corralling each warm memory
to morph the past to one grey blur.

Emotional paralysis
senses dulled from desolation.
Suddenly comes along the buoy
in the middle of an ocean.

You found me or did I...

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A parched wind
still circles the dust devils
corralling them
in funneled fury.
The old rooster
atop the barn
squeaks
as the weather changes
as do the joints
in the old blue jeans.
Hard black coffee
bubbles on the stove,
her apron hangs
a memory
on the chair,
an old...

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A tsunami of emotion engulfs my fragile soul
as I stare transfixed at fly-by silver moons
we once found solace in when swopping kisses
at midnight curfew’s flimsy threadbare sanction

As I stare transfixed at fly-by silver moons
our golden...

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He is a man to himself   Trust is not of his nature   He is a lone cowboy     Corralling his love    It would be easier...

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spring high jinx

lusty sunbeams jive
 rowdy clouds do fandangos ~ 
  gusty winds kiss kites

ducklings surf the pond
 fuzzy goslings in high jinx ~
  willow trees hula dance

spring stars waltz the sky
 wink...

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Can we perpetuate the pleasure felt
When moved by our spirit

Heart in motion can be balanced
Like a wheel it makes tracks.

Countless ages have formed roads
Where hunger has beaten a path

Whether to tree or honeycomb
Or shelter of...

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Chasing chickens down the sidewalk,
she passed the red door once,
twice
Was she going in circles?
Did everyone have a red door?
When did this chicken
get so fast?
Catching lizards in a net,
a fishing net,
a butterfly net,
a net with holes...

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